WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1947
Find out what all happened May to December 1947

Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. (25. November 1947)

The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India. (26. October 1947)

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. (23. June 1947)

William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. (16. December 1947)

First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam. (29. November 1947)

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. (6. July 1947)

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). (7. August 1947)

Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. (7. August 1947)

American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. (17. November 1947)

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F., staged its first football match. (14. December 1947)

The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy. (22. December 1947)

The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. (4. July 1947)

The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. (23. December 1947)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today. (11. August 1947)

Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. (29. November 1947)

The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. (25. June 1947)

First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. (9. September 1947)

Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. (24. October 1947)

The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. (17. November 1947)

Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077. (15. September 1947)